Defending league champions, Asante Kotoko, were held 1-1 by Hasaacas at the Essipong Stadium.<\/b><\/p>\n
Kotoko took the lead in the second half through Issah Yakubu but a late penalty from Dennis Opoku denied the Reds all three points.<\/span><\/p>\n Defender Abeiku Ainooson was sent off for the foul that caused the penalty.<\/span><\/p>\n Kotoko still the table with 51 points while Hasaacas are fourth with 36 points.<\/span><\/p>\n Inter Allies took another step towards Premier League survival with a hard-fought 1-0 win over \u00a0Wa All Stars.<\/b><\/p>\n A first half strike from Abdul Safiu Fatau settled the encounter and gave the Tema-based team their ninth unbeaten match in ten second round matches and move them up to 31 points on the table.<\/p>\n Wa All Stars are now eighth on 33 points.<\/p>\n Hearts of Oak suffered their third straight loss when they were beaten by Berekum Chelsea at the Golden City Park.<\/b><\/p>\n Bennet Ofori scored the winner for the Blues to hand them a seventh position on 33 points while Hearts are now third on 38 points.<\/p>\n Second-placed Heart of Lions could only manage a 1-1 home draw with Aduana Stars.<\/p>\n Lions took the lead through Mohammed Razir but local Black Stars right back Godfred Saka pulled the former league champions level<\/p>\n The result gives Lions 41 points and Aduana Stars are at the bottom of the log with 27 points.<\/p>\n In other results, Liberty Professionals complicated Dwarfs’ fight to stay up with a 1-0 victory in Dansoman and Bechem United went past New Edubiase by a similar scoreline.<\/p>\n King Faisal edged Amidaus Professionals 3-2 at the Baba Yara Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Defending league champions, Asante Kotoko, were held 1-1 by Hasaacas at the Essipong Stadium. Kotoko took the lead in the second half through Issah Yakubu but a late penalty from Dennis Opoku denied the Reds all three points. Defender Abeiku Ainooson was sent off for the foul that caused the penalty. Kotoko still the table […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-13943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}